Archives for
May 2009

Last week, Bravo hosted a virtual viewing party for The Real Housewives of New York season finale, and they were desperate for you to tweet them during this interactive live stream that combined Facebook Connect, Sign In with Twitter, and mobile chat...

Twitter has rapidly become an invaluable tool for news outlets: news anchors are using Twitter constantly to ask questions and gather feedback from their audience, while CNN's Breaking News account is the #2 most followed user on Twitter. But what AB...

If Warner Bros. had their own Facebook profile, their most recent status update would inevitably read, "Warner Bros. went from being 'single' to being 'in a relationship' with Facebook." Why, you ask? That's because the two have just inked a deal to ...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

In the last couple of weeks, Facebook has started improving all sorts of little things around the site: it added semi real-time notifications about new posts in your stream, and most recently it added the possibility of creating custom friend lists i...

Ever since the launch of social networking application platforms on Facebook, MySpace, and others, gaming has taken a sharp turn towards social media. For many, playing games is best as a shared experience on consoles, so it makes sense that companie...

What's your process for notifying new contacts of your social presence online? Is it an extensive email signature with prominent social site links? A mobile business card app? A myriad of tweets, phone calls, or IM chat sessions? Maybe all of the abo...

Right now, it's relatively easy to create a Twitter trending topic (see them at search.twitter.com). Example: start a game, get a couple of friends to join in, and if it catches on, you've got yourself a trend. Unfortunately, this also means that it'...

Typically, when you schedule something – at least something happening in the immediate future - you don’t spell out the date and time, but rather say something along the lines of “let’s have lunch on Friday at noon.” And that’s where Task.fm looks to...

OneRiot has already established itself as a search engine for discovering the pulse of the Web. They've even done a mighty fine job tackling Twitter search for Web pages. Now, they're moving further into the realm of the real-time Web, with new featu...

The Twittering Towns series is supported by the Comcast Town Contest. Create your own Comcast Town apartment by May 14 for an opportunity to win a prize worth up to $30,000, including a room remodel, 40-inch Sony Bravia® HDTV, a Sony VAIO® AW laptop ...

Last month, I wondered if we really needed alternatives to Twitter’s native search product. Increasingly, it seems like the answer is “yes,” as startups continue to push the envelope while Twitter search sees few updates of its own. Earlier today we ...

Max Gladwell is the brainchild of writer and marketer Rob Reed. Rob specializes in sustainability and cause-driven marketing. You can also follow Max Gladwell on Twitter. Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of tech...

With all due respect, I wouldn’t put Vin Diesel in the upper echelon of movie actors. But on Facebook, the Fast & Furious star is second to none among the Hollywood elite. He’s currently adding hundreds of thousands of fans daily, and with more than ...

Google has just made search a lot more useful, and real-time search offerings (i.e. Twitter Search, OneRiot, and Tweetmeme) are about to feel the power of the Google juggernaut. Why? Because of the release of Google Search Options, a new Google searc...

In April, Volvo's extraordinarily large microsite in a banner took over the masthead of YouTube, and even included live Twitter updates from Volvo. Volvo's mini-foray into social ad units must have done pretty well, because now Sprint is taking the c...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

The Web is filled with such an immense amount of video content, it's ridiculous to think you can find it all, or even just find the best stuff on your own. Some methods already exist that bring the Web's best video to the forefront - for example, Dig...

It may not be a moon landing, or a giant leap for mankind, but the first human tweet from space has just made its way over the microblogging platform to Earth. Due to the extraordinary nature of the tweet, this very first one is likely to go down in ...

What can't be done via Twitter these days? It's become the platform for performing a strange variety of tasks, like doing the laundry, performing research, or even providing customer service. But what about the elusive task of finding true love? Well...

iLike, one of the 5 essential tools for marketing your band, is already great at helping artists create a single page that can reach their fans almost anywhere online, and help them monitor fan response. Today, iLike is announcing a suite of new Web ...

Recently, the Linux Foundation, the non-profit consortium that fosters the growth of Linux, took over the stewardship over Linux.com. Now, the site has been relaunched, bringing together various Linux distributions, software, as well as prominent blo...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: For the latest breaking news on this topic, see our article Twitter Repairs #fixreplies With #ducttape -- Twitter is buzzing about a new change Twitter implemented not too long ago. The reaction by users though has been far from app...

The best way to see if something works or not is to try it out for yourself. FOXTEL Australia has sent us an email about their new website, called I Am Unique, which lets users create personalized 3D portraits that incorporate text, videos and images...

If you look at the upper left corner of Google Calendar, you'll see a new option: Tasks. Although you could have used Calendar's standard events for the purpose of tasks and reminders, this new option adds several important features, but unfortunatel...

So you applied for that $70K government job of Social Media Co-ordinator of Multnomah County, Oregon? Yeah, not gonna happen. Caving to those who oppose spending money on (gasp) communicating online, Multnomah County Chairman Ted Wheeler has axed the...

There are few things on the Web more educational and more mind-blowing than TED Talks. TED, the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference, brings together some of the world's brightest people. This convergence has produced hundreds of amazing lect...

The idea of group (or social, if you will) website annotations has been around for some time. Adding another layer of (useful, hopefully) information to a web destination seems interesting, but none of the services that tried had really managed to cr...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: For the latest breaking news on this topic, see our article Twitter Repairs #fixreplies With #ducttape -- Twitter users are up in arms today about the removal of a key feature on the service. As we wrote earlier, Twitter has determi...

Alison Driscoll is an interactive copywriter and social media consultant who specializes in Facebook. She authors a blog at alisondriscoll.com. Not even a year ago, Facebook was still being dismissed as a silly site intended to help college kids slac...

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